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Latin America Programme - [10/19/2009]
CUIMPB autumn course on the State and Social Cohesion
The State in Latin America: Building bridges for social cohesion? The current crisis is creating new challenges in Latin America. Thus, the subject for debate on the course "The States an... -
CIDOB Programmes - [09/29/2009]
CIDOB at the 9th AECPA conference
Anna Ayuso and Gemma Pinyol, the respective coordinators of the Latin America and Migrations Programmes CIDOB, participated in Malaga in Rethinking democracy: inclusion and diversity, the 9th Con... -
Latin America Programme - [06/22/2009]
Rethinking inequality
28th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. From 11 to 14 June, three researchers from the CIDOB Foundation – Anna Ayuso, Coordinator of the Latin America Programme,... -
Latin America Programme - [06/19/2009]
In Ciudad Juárez, a military response is being given to a social problem
The policy of abandonment is the main cause of the absence of government in Ciudad Juárez. -
Latin America Programme - [05/12/2009]
"Latin America is better than it was 10 years ago, and it will be better in the future"
On 7 May, Guadalupe González and Ferran Martínez i Coma, researchers from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics, or CIDE) of Mexico, pre... -
Latin America Programme - [04/21/2009]
Latin America has the highest percentage of women in its parliaments, but it still has a way to go to achieve gender equality
On 23 March, the presentation and debate took place of the research study “The representation of women in four national parliaments. The cases of Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay”. The event... -
Latin America Programme - [03/17/2009]
Post-Graduate in Globalisation and Competitiveness
Solving the crisis is a global task -
Latin America Programme - [03/16/2009]
Workshop: “Strategies for Local-Community Development”, a collaborative action between Cuba and Catalonia.
The seminar-workshop “Strategies for Local-Community Development”, a collaborative action between Cuba and Catalonia, resulted in five days of critical reflection, committed debate and plans for... -
Latin America Programme - [03/13/2009]
Europe-Latin America: the approaches of social movements since the 1970s
The new sociopolitical context in Latin America requires new approaches in order to study the social movements in the region -
Latin America Programme - [02/23/2009]
CIDOB participates in comparative debate conference on Canada and Spain's relations with Cuba
At the meeting held in Madrid by FRIDE, FOCAL and Casa de América on 19 February, the participants debated the triangular relations between Cuba, Canada and Spain, and assessed future prospects f... -
Latin America Programme - [02/20/2009]
The Brazilian economy in the age of globalisation
“Brazil could become a strategic pole for all of South America” -
Latin America Programme - [02/12/2009]
Workshop: “Party and governmental coalitions in presidential regimes, and their impact on political stability: the case of the Southern Cone” (1983-2005)
“Latin America is experiencing a deconstruction of the bi-party system and a rise in governmental and party coalitions” -
Latin America Programme - [02/06/2009]
The challenges for the harmonisation of the comprehensive management of water between the Andean countries
"There is no shortage of water in Latin America; what we have is a shortage of infrastructure". On 30 January 2009, specialists in water management in Latin America met up at the CID... -
Latin America Programme - [12/17/2008]
Presentation of the “Comparative Atlas of Defence in Latin America”, 2008 Edition
The armed forces in the region have developed their institutionality. -
Latin America Programme - [12/11/2008]
2nd Meeting on Coexistence and Security.
Comprehensive, preventive and participative conception: turning difficulties into challenges and risks into opportunities. -
Latin America Programme - [12/04/2008]
Seminar “Institutionalisation of the party system in Latin America”
The success of elections in the Southern Cone depends not only on the characteristics of the candidates but also on the functioning of the party system. -
Latin America Programme - [11/20/2008]
The buried mirror? A comparative view of Europe and Latin America
Masters' in Latin American Studies presented at the CIDOB Foundation. -
Latin America Programme - [11/12/2008]
Workshop: "The puzzle of Latin American security at the dawn of the 21st century"
The title of the event is that of the research study presented by Josep Baqués Quesada, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Barcelona and ex-analyst at the Centre for Analysis and... -
Latin America Programme - [11/07/2008]
Seminar “Plan Colombia II; war and human rights”
On 16, 17 and 18 October, the Colectivo Maloka, the Office for the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights, the Catalan Association for Peace and the CIDOB Foundation held a seminar titled “ Plan Col... -
Latin America Programme - [11/05/2008]
Second Transatlantic Symposium: "How can poverty and inequality be reduced in Latin America?"
The Vice-President of the Generalitat of Catalunya Mr Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira and Bernardo Kliksberg, Head Advisor to the UNPD for Latin America, took part in a debate chaired by the journalist... -
Latin America Programme - [10/06/2008]
Cuba's evolution and prospects for relations with Europe
Cuban and European experts participated in a seminar to debate issues of common interest and to foster greater mutual collaboration. -
Latin America Programme - [07/16/2008]
Ex-president Carlos Mesa analyses the political situation in Bolivia
“Settling accounts with history means being able to look ahead without being unaware of the future” Carlos Mesa Gisbert, the ex-President of Bolivia, who led the country from 2003 to 2005, has... -
Latin America Programme - [05/28/2008]
Brazil in the age of globalisation: 20 years of Brazilian development
Brazil has now taken off and is in flight, the only thing required is to confirm the route of the flight. On 21 May, and in collaboration with the Fundación Cultural Hispano-Brasileña, the con... -
Latin America Programme - [05/13/2008]
Should the concept of governability be redefined?
The concept of governability deserves to be refined in order for it to be suitably applied to the Latin American region. -
Latin America Programme - [04/11/2008]
Disenchantment with politics has led to judges gaining greater protagonism
The phenomenon of the judicialisation of politics in Latin America under debate. -
Latin America Programme - [03/12/2008]
The path towards a more integrated region continues to be a long, difficult one
The seminar emphasised the importance of integration in terms of the development agenda, external influence and the democratic governance of MERCOSUR. -
Latin America Programme - [01/28/2008]
Latin America and the Armed Forces Microsite
The CIDOB Foundation is launching a microsite for the project “The Democratic Consolidation of the Armed Forces in Southern Latin America”. Managed by Rafael Martínez from the University of Barce... -
Latin America Programme - [11/27/2007]
The UN Stabilisation Mission needs time
The CIDOB Foundation was the venue for a lecture given by the researcher Johanna Mendelson, titled Haiti: the role of the UN and the future of MINUSTAH. -
CIDOB Programmes - [11/16/2007]
More data, in order to understand Latin American immigration in Spain
The CIDOB holds a seminar to examine the research projects currently in progress on the main aspects related with Latin American migration flows in Spain. -
Latin America Programme - [11/13/2007]
It is not easy to go from a party-based logic to a coalitional approach
CIDOB has organised a debate workshop in which the professors Josep M. Reniu and Jordi Matas analysed the current coalition governments in Latin American presidential systems. -
Latin America Programme - [05/25/2007]
Maras and youth Gangs: two different worlds
The CIDOB Foundation organised a seminar which compared the Latin American maras and youth gangs existing in Europe. -
Latin America Programme - [03/21/2007]
CIDOB, in the drawing up of the European Development Report
Anna Ayuso, co-ordinator of the CIDOB Foundation’s Latin America Programme, presented a lecture in Brussels on The Role of Institutions in the Fight against Inequality. -
Latin America Programme - [03/05/2007]
Local innovations in Brazil and Spain in the face of global insecurities
The CIDOB Foundation hosted a seminar in which reflections were made on new forms of social intervention in the local sphere in the face of situations of vulnerability and risk that the current g... -
Latin America Programme - [02/13/2007]
The report "Mexico and the World 2006", presented in CIDOB
“Mexicans do not feel threatened by China, and half of them think that being a neighbour of the United States is favourable”, according to a report presented by Covadonga Meseguer, a researcher i... -
Latin America Programme - [01/31/2007]
Luis Esteban G. Manrique presents his latest book in CIDOB
The CIDOB Foundation’s hosted the presentation of De la conquista a la globalización: Estados, naciones y nacionalismos en América Latina [From Conquest to Globalisation: States, Nations and Nati... -
Latin America Programme - [01/10/2007]
The professionalisation of public employment in Latin America
The CIDOB Foundation’s organised a seminar in which the professionalisation of public service was highlighted as one of the basic strategies for fighting corruption in Latin American public insti... -
Latin America Programme - [10/03/2006]
España y Cuba, relaciones sin cambios significativos
Francesc Bayo, investigador de CIDOB, afirmó que "las relaciones políticas hispano-cubanas se mantienen en una situación transitoria, pero sin alteraciones", en la Sala Campana de la Fu... -
Latin America Programme - [05/16/2006]
La desconfianza de los peruanos en sus instituciones públicas
Los peruanos Magdalena Chocano (historiadora i poeta), Rafael Drinot (sociólogo y periodista) y Pedro Patrón (comunicador) analizaron en CIDOB los resultados electorales producidos en su país.
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